Hope Learning Services

August 2-6, 2021

Theme: Collaborating

Skill Building: Knowing Yourself

Person-Centered Thinking & Safety

Monday August 2, 2021

Today happens to be... Coloring Book Day

New Theme for a New Month! Collaborating (Tahiya yapping at you Video)

Thematic Media—What Is Collaboration?

This video talks about collaboration in a classroom but what other places can we collaborate? What situations in program require collaboration? What situations at work require collaboration?

Thematic Activity

PRESENTERS: click the link for self-awareness for collaboration. Read about and explain that emotional intelligence is understanding the humnan feelings. Talk about how self-awareness and self-management make us better teammates when we are collaborating.

Self-Awareness and Collaboration

Body Break—Clown Workouts... Really!

This week we'll be exploring new body breaks that help people who are actually professional clowns do their clowning. If you happen to have a clown nose in your costume box, you could keep it handy!

Skills Media—Jump Start Self-Awareness (10 min)

PRESENTERS: Tell participants this is a sponsored video but that Hope isn't promoting skill share, but just want to consider the self-awareness advice.

You can stop the video after an important idea to restate it for the group.

Skills Information—23 self-awareness questions to ask ourselves.

PRESENTERS: Scroll down to the 23 questions and pick a few to pose to your group. If you have a large group, you can pose the questions and then explain how different people might answer them.

Skills Applied (optional)

Draw a picture of yourself, or write a paragraph, that includes things you know about yourself and questions you have about yourself.

Body Break — Clown Dance Workout - this one is long so you can stop it early if you want

Fun Stuff—Animals in Mirrors

Sequence the Hour-what did we learn in what order?

Civics & Community Awareness

image by Vince Fleminmg on Unsplash

Tuesday August 3, 2021

Today happens to be...Clean Your Floors Day

Thematic Media—Write an Autobiography

Writing about your own life can make you realize things you didn't before about YOURSELF!

PRESENTERS: READ THE TEXT ALOUD as the video plays.

Thematic Activity

Think about your life and make a written or mental list of the people who have collaborated with you over the years to help make your experience on earth what it has been. Our first collaborators are our family usually, but not for everyone. Who has been collaborating with you in this lifetime of yours? Is it a fun collaboration? Is it hard sometimes? No one gets through life without the help and support of others. And sometimes, when look back on our lives, we realize that we sometimes had to change teams.

Body Break—Clown Workout: The Note of Inifity

Skills Media—Self-Acceptance

Skills Information

When we know ourselves well we have the confidence to show our weakensses without feeling ashamed of them. We accept ourselves as human beings and don't expect ourselves to be perfect.

But if we aren't very aware of our weak points, or we are afraid to think about them, we are tempted to hide them, or if someone notices them, we feel embarrassed.

Think for a minute about what you want to NEVER put into your autobiography. If there is something like that, try to figure out why you feel that way. Can you acknowledge and respect something about yourself that isn't perfect and be OK with that? If not, that's OK. Just let it be a part of you. Everything that has happened in your life helped make you who you are today, so really, it's all OK.

Skills Applied

Design the cover of your Autobiography. Would you put your picture on it? What color scheme would you use? What title would you give it? why?

Examples of Titles of Autobiographies

Sample covers of autobiographies

Body Break—Clown Workout: Emotion Workout

Fun Stuff—2019 Flash Mobs

Sequence the Hour

Well Being and Social Connection

Wednesday August 4, 2021

Today happens to be...Assistance Dog Day

Thematic Media—Collaboration for wellness

Thematic Activity

Review the graphic on FOOD DESERTS.

How does Hope collaborate with projects in community to provide more access to fruits and vegetables for more people?
What more could we do?
Do you have access to fresh produce?
Can you get to a grocery store easily on your own?

Body Break—Clown Workout—Problemns and Solutions (again longer so you can stop once you feel like you got the idea)

Skills Media—One idea for collaborating to create community and healthful food

Skills Information

Know Your Needs

What does one person need to live?

PRESENTERS: Use this web page to create a sample Cost of living scenario. From the boxes at the top, enter an income of $85,000 for the first person. Leave the second one alone. Set the city for San Jose, or another Bay Area town, choose 1 person for the family, set the food plan to moderate and the square feet to 1000. See if that is enough. Adjust the earning number higher and lower to show how much 1 person needs to earn to live in the location you set.

This graphic shows regions of the country costs of living

Body Break—Clown Workout—Laughter Yoga (stop when you want)

Skills Applied

So we see how expensive it is to live some places. What kinds of collaboration could people do to make it work?
What kind of collaborative arrangements do you have in your life to make it work?
Can you think of creative collaborations for other needs, like groceries, transportation, or education?

Fun Stuff—Monkey & Puppy

Sequence the Hour

Rights & Self Advocacy

Thursday August 5, 2021

Today happens to be...Oyster Day

Recall the theme and skill for the week

Thematic Media

Coming Together to Make Change

Leading sports team in Milwaukee come together to fund and support minority-owned businesses. This is a very high level of collaboration by people who have what is called a "high profile," another way of saying they have fame so when they do something most people notice.

PRESENTERS: Help your group understand that the sports teams COLLABORATED with Microsoft and each other to bring MONEY to a problem that needs money to be solved. Businesses need money to get started BEFORE they can start selling goods or services. Someone has to believe in the idea of a business and invest in it. It is often harder for business ideas by people who are in minority groups to get that "start up" money.

Thematic Activity

Review this info graphic of how to get "start-up" money for your business idea and identify which of the ways are what the teams and Microsoft offer in the news story above.

Body Break—Clown Workout—"The Drop"

Skills Media

One way to have the power to advocate for yourself is to control your own job, be your own boss. Owning your own business, instead of having an employer, can be very empowering. But to be a successful business owner one of the most important things you can learn is about yourself. After all, the whole business depends on you.

Read these tips on self-knowledge for business owners. Think about your own personality and strengths.

What kind of business might you start?
Would it be a service or product?
Who would be your customers?
How would you feel about taking care of your customers all the time, no matter what happens?
Who would you ask to invest in YOUR business if you were to start one?
Do you think having a job for an employer is harder or easier than having a business yourself?

Skills Information

Think about the people you know who love and support you. Think about the people you just know, but not as well. Think about people who know the people you know. Would you be able to get these people to help you with a business idea?

Make a mental, or written, list of the people you could get to COLLABORATE with you on starting a business.

Use this info graphic to identify the steps where your "team" could support you.

Who would you support if they asked for your help with THEIR business idea?

Skills Applied

Choose one of these entrepreneur quizzes and try it. Have a volunteer or two choose answers based on themselves.

Body Break—Clown Workout—Strangers in my Home

Fun Stuff—Cuddly Wombats

Sequence the Hour